Friday 28th Feruaury 1975. Third Division. The Valley. Att 18,929
Charlton Athletic 2 (1) (Cripps 41, Kelly 77) Gillingham 1 (1) (Feely 25)
Charlton: Tutt, Curtis, Cripps, Hunt, Goldthorpe, Young, Powell, Hales, Horsfield, Kelly, Peacock. Unused sub: Flanagan.
Gillingham: Hillyard, Wiltshire (O'Donnell 79), Ley, Galvin, Shipperley, Tydeman, Jacks, Gauden, Richardson, Chadwick, Feely.
Referee: K Baker (Rugby).
Charltons 3rd highest home attendance in their promotion season. League gates varied between 26,104 for the visit of Palace to a mere 4,527 for the Swindon game.
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I'm trying to remember if they both went back there after their spells with us?
Midfielder Dick Tydeman was sold for a club record fee of £65,000 to Charlton Athletic in December 1976. He later returned for a second spell during the summer of 1981 and, in total, made 371 league appearances for the club.
‘The worst thing I ever did as Gillingham Manager was to sign Dave Shipperley. He is a tremendous player’. A seemingly extraordinary comment from Andy Nelson until you understand the context. Immediately Gills got promoted back into the Third Division in 1974 Nelson signed Dave from Charlton. Nelson then was poached by Charlton to become their manager, leaving Dave with us. It took Nelson four years to get him back.
Dave Shipperley was a towering centre-half, built like the proverbial brick outhouse, and looked even more fearsome with the then fashionable long hair and beard. The sort of player that home fans idolise, and opposition fans target. Amazingly, Gills had got him from Charlton on a free transfer, where he had been in some dispute with them and gone on strike to work as a dustman. He dominated in defence with his heading and crunching tackles, was an obvious aerial danger at set pieces, and electrified the crowd when from time to time he decided to charge forward with the ball like a runaway tank
As for Shipperley, he was huge and broad-shouldered. I was really p*ssed off when we sold him. He'd done well when he first came into the team, then had a longish lay off with injury. Theo Foley never really fancied him and he was sold. When he came back again he wasn't the same player and I think he packed in due to back trouble.
Tydeman was a popular player for us after signing him from the Gills, but not with me. I hated him and thought him hugely overrated. He did pass it around although he often misplaced his passes and he did score the odd decent goal but he couldn't head for toffees and was often muscled out.
This game was a rare one for Horsfield being played as a striker as had switched to centre back most of the time this season.
Great result even better because of the Friday night effect.
Big Dave....Ship, Ship, Shipperley...remember a game when he powered a header so hard against the crossbar, the rebound ended up on the half way line after just one bounce.....the noise of the ball hitting the bar, and shuddering has always stayed with me...
Tydeman was never a favorite of mine either. I remember him getting sent off at Colchester one year.
Don't remember Kelly at all either!
Tel, I remember that!! Can't remember the game though. He really was a colossus. I think there was a feeling around that because of his size he was a bit of an eeyore but I didn't and he was so commanding in the air. His son Neil, played for quite a few teams including Palarse. A different sort of player though.
Didn't everyone in 1975? (except me as a 16 year old of course!)
Tydeman played really well for them, spraying the ball around and I reckon Nelson rated him having managed him at both clubs.
I liked Tydeman personally but for a big bloke he was lightweight. On his day he was a good creative midfielder and with the likes of Peter Hunt, Richie Bowman, Colin Powell and Keith Peacock we had a class midfield. Mr Gliksten therefore decided to sell Hales! Ho hum!
Mick "Ned" Kelly allegedly stabbed or threatened to stab somebody and ended up inside. He had a spell at Coldblow Lane which might explain his alleged violent behaviour!
Good to see Ned Kelly mentioned again.
He was one of my forgotton players on the "Where Are They Now" thread a few days ago.
I thought I was the only one who remembered him, so thanks Len. ;o)
I'm pretty sure we signed him from Southern League Bexley United. You're good at these old players' records, Len - do you know his playing history - and where he is now?
Just curious.
My stand out moment of him was in a just before Easter 1972 Division 2 match home to Orient, where Big Dave hit a long backpass almost from the half way line. It caught in the wind and looped high and down into the back of our net.
One of the own goals of the century.
We were relatively comfortably esconced in lower mid-table - but after Shipps glorious og, we lost
that Orient match 2-1 and never won another match all season, culminating in that
dreadful spineless 5-0 collapse at Blackpool in the last match of the season.
You would never have predicted relegation for Charlton, in the middle of March that year.
a bit before my charlton life began..... by the sounds of that seasons collapse you probably had us down as promotion certainties in march ;-)
Oggy, that fall down the league all co-incided with an injury to Peter Reeves - my how we missed him.
I maybe completely barking and got this wrong though. Anyone confirm ??!!